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Patented May 12, 18.68.

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Letters Patent No. 77,724, dated-Mag 12, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN sstritsss LEATHER-STRAPS AND TUBES."

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ALoIS ESOIIENLOHR, of Munich, Bavaria, Method of Skinning and Cutting out the Skin of Animals into Endless Belts or Straps of grentlength and I hereby declare the'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference'being hall' to the annexed sheet of drawings. i I i s v My invention consists in a certain obtain leather straps-for transmission of motion, ing, nor soldering, is required. v

Herctofore it has been practically impossible to obtain leather straps or bands of great length for tubes and other purposes, owing to the usual method of'skinning, whereby the thong out out could notbe longer than the anilnals body. I have devised several modes of I and also tubes oflargeidiameter, wherein no seam nor rivet- First method. The animal being knocked down is skinned/and the skin is cut out through the dorsaland then through the axial longitudinal lines, the cut extending along the whole length of the belly. The skin, by this means, is separated intotwo parts,'save the hind parts, which connects the twb'p arts and saidskin, being once spread or developed, 'will yield straps of twice the length of the animal.

Figure 1, sheet 1, represents the skin spread out.

a and a, head-skin.

b and 5, cut through the dorsal line.

0 and 0, skin from the fore legs. I

d'and d, skin from the hind legs. I

e and 0, skin fromthe hind part of the animal, the only part whie'h is not cut out.

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Second method. This method will now be explained, reference being had to fig l, sheet 2, of the drawings- Slcz'mzing Process. v v

The animal being knocked down as usual, the under part of the neck is cut open from 1 to 2, and under the belly from 3 to'4.

These incisions sufiice for the removing of the flesh and bones.' can be out out in various ways. I

' First. When seamless straps are wanted, I cut longitudinally parallel bands or zones, asin fig.'1,'sheet 2. There remain, after this operation, a plane surface, a, the chine or vertebral column, and three endless seamless straps. More of' these may be obtained by cutting out narrower zones, so as to obtain'narrower straps.

Second. When it is desired to obtain, with the same skin, surface, itwill suflice to cut the skin spirally, as shown at fig. 2, sheet l. This strap need have'but one seam, which would be formed by joining the two ends through the'width of the strap. p

Third method The head of theanimal is cut oil, and the back part cut open, and thereby a. skin-cylinder is obtained, which is cut out spirallywhen a long strap is desired, or into parallel zones when endless straps are Wanted. This third method resembles somewhat the second, the zones being cut out trausverselyinstead of longitudinally.

When it is desired to'ob'taiu from-a skin, removed in the usual manner, one strap only of great length, then on the skin laid flatwise,t\vo spiral lines or cuts are drawn or out, as shown in Figure 3, sheet 1, wherein avfirst spiral line is drawn, which, after full development, is drawn inversely back, so as to form a second spiral, which passes between the first cut, and which finally returns to join the starting-point of the first; I

There now remains-a skin-cylinder, which The tanning and cambering are efl'ected in the usualway, the latter operation being for the'purpose of straightening thehand.

To obtain a double strap, I fold one upon the other.-

have invented a certain new and improvedmethod of skinning the dead animitl and cutting out the skin so as to skinning and cutting out the skin, so as to'obtain from one single strap cut out from the whole skin- Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, sheet 1, show transverse sections of these doubled straps. lhe union of the two parts may be obtained by means of any suitable mastic or glue interposed Between them.

Figure 6, sheet 2, shows a method of cutting out the skin in an oblique direction.

Figure 9, sheet 1, represents, in red lines, the path of the skinning-knife through the animal, according to the second method.

FigurelO, sheet 1, shows, likewise in dotted outline as represented in elevation, fig. 2, sheet 2.

Figure Il sheet 1, shows, in 'red outlines, the third method, or as represented in fig. 3, sheet 2.

Having now described my inventiony vhat I claim, States, is-

1. The method of skinning the animal and cutting out the skin, 1, sheet 1, of the accompanying drawings.

2. The method of skinning and cutting out t great length, in the manner herein described, and illustrated accompanying drawings.

- ALOIS ESGHENL'OHR.

Witnesses HEINRICH HEMMER, LsoPoLn HAUSLOHER.

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the path of the skinning-knife through the animal, according to and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United as herein de scribed, and illustrated in fig.

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